Remember I asked you from the preface, John Ray's preface, to figure out who Dolly Schiller is, who dies in childbed.

还记得我曾让你们找出约翰·雷序言中的，死在产床上的多莉是谁。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

There is also the question of what kind of reader we are that this preface brings up and sort of puts in front of us.

有一个问题，我们是什么样的读者呢,在这个序言面前。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

In fact, during this whole period playwrights were writing prologues to their plays abusing each other for being obscure that is to say, abusing each other for requiring interpretation.

事实上，当时,剧作家给别人的剧作写序言时,经常互相指责说对方的作品晦涩难懂,换言之，指责说对方的作品需要解读。

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And that's a difference in authorship. So if you look, for example, at the prologue to the laws of Ur-nammu: An and Enlil gave kingship to Ur-nammu, but Ur-nammu is said to establish equity and the laws.

这是由作者决定的差别，例如，在吾珥南模法典的，序言里提到，安努和恩利勒将王位传给了吾珥南模,但据说是吾珥南模建立了衡平法和这部法典。

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In the preface to his largest book, the Discourses on Livy, he compares himself to Christopher Columbus for his discovery of what he calls " "new modes and orders."

在他最大一部著作，《论利瓦伊》的序言中，他将自己和哥伦布相比,因为他发现,其所谓的，“新模式与秩序“

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Now, a foreword is of course supposed to suggest how you should read the text that's coming. And so, if we take it on in that role, let's see what we see.

现在，一个序言当然是要建议大家,去读一下那本书，还有，如果我们借鉴这个作用，让我们看一下这个。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

First there is a preamble. That's found in every one.

第一个序言，每个条约都能找到。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

It reads almost exactly like the prologues to these ancient collections.

读起来几乎就像那些古代法律资料集的序言。

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The Torah laws-- And also, the laws in those collections very often, despite the prologues' rhetoric that they bring justice to the disadvantaged and so on, many of the laws clearly serve the interests of an upper class. Okay, that's the more important point.

尽管《律法》，和那些材料中的法律，在序言中花言巧语，声称自己为弱势群体,带来正义等等，但很明显很多法律都是为上层阶级的,利益服务，记住，这是一个更重要的观点。

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And I urge you not to neglect the foreword by John Ray Jr., so I hope you read it, the little italicized foreword.

我希望你们不要忽略掉John，Ray，Jr，写的序言，我希望你们读一下那些斜体的序言。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

So, I'm going to ask you to read the afterword, " On a Book Entitled Lolita." When you read that, you'll notice that the word "throbs" comes back.

所以，我希望你们去读一读序言“,在那本叫Lolita的书上，当你们读的时候，你们对再看到悸动这个词。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选